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Education: Cambridge University (MA, PhD)
Lecturer in zoology, University of Edinburgh.
Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 06.03.1933. Chief Fisheries Officer,
Palestine, League of Nations, 1936-.... Professor of Zoology, University of
Libya.

admitted RN
Hospital Kingseat with defective vision (having been earlier admitted to
Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Infirmary at 19.07.1940 with a head injury and
concussion), found medically unfit for service and released from service dated
23.12.1940

His son writes: "He joined the Navy some time in
1940 and was a coder on HMS Chesterfield,serving on N Atlantic convoy duty prior
to obtaining his commission and transfer to Landing Craft. I believe he spent
most of 1943 and early 1944 at Inverary. He was at Juno Beach during the D-Day
operations. On 2nd April 1945 he was appointed to LCI 163 at Liverpool and
sailed through the Mediterranean to India. He arrived after the Japanese
surrender and was in Cochin in November. He came home on the Ile de Franc from
Bombay in December 1945. I possess his diaries containing one line statements of
his movements during D Day and the period subsequent when he returned with his
damaged ship to Southampton over a month later."
* indexed, but not listed as such

Cronin,Richard John Percival
Son of John James Cronin (1880-1936), and Mary Edith Sullivan (1884-1971), of Plymouth.
His brother Petty Officer Supply James Patrick Cronin (15.09.1916-15.11.1943)
was killed on destroyer HMS Quail south of Calabria when the ship was mined. His
sister Mary Kate Cronin married
Lt.Cdr. (S) L.R. Southey, RNVR.
Married (01.01.1951, Plymouth district, Devon) Catherine G. Reid; one son, two
daughters.

Education: Ridley College, St Catharines, Ont.;
Ontario College of Art; Art Students LEague, NY; Académie Lhote, Paris;
American School of Fine Arts, Fontainbleau
Spent three years working in Paris studios & five years as a freelance
artist in London.

19.11.1940

-

(02.)1941

Unexploded
Bombs Department, Admiralty (for duty outside Admiralty)

(12.1941)

no
appointment listed

24.08.1942

-

(10.1944)

Executive
Officer, HMS Mallard (patrol vessel)

(07.1945)

HMS
Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *

(1945)

British
Naval Liaison Officer, French heavy cruiser "Suffren"

Artist, painter. FRSA. Director of Art at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London (three years).
Full-time lecturer in painting at North East Essex School of Art, Colchester
(eight years).

Education: Pembroke Lodge, Southbourne; Roborough,
Eastbourne.Actor.
On
leaving school went into Arks Publicity, Advertising
Agents, as copywriter. First professional appearance walking
on in Libel at King's Theatre, Hammersmith, 1933; played Hamlet
in modern dress, Old Vic, 1938; toured the Continent, 1939.

1941

joined RN
as a rating; midshipman, HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove,
Sussex)

First
Lieutenant, HMS Prowess (trawler) (probably even in command late 1945/early
1946?)

Returned to his employers, Commercial Union Assurance,
at which time he was living at Buckhurst Hill, Essex. It would seem he later became a member of the RNVR Officers' Association and was also in the Rotary Club of Catford.

Education: Eton (1923); Trinity College, Oxford
(1929)
Qualified as a solicitor, 1937. Legal
adviser and business manager to Michel Saint-Denis, the French theatrical
director at the Old Vic drama school.

11.03.1937

joined
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]

Deputy secretary-general of the European Movement,
1947. Serving on the Council of Europe till 1962. Senior partner in the Paris
office of the law firm Herbert Smith & Co., 1964-1973.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Commander Rupert Curtis RNVR commanded the landing
craft flotilla that carried the commandos of Lord Lovat’s 1st Special Service
Brigade to Sword Beach on D-Day. After the war he built up extensive papers –
(which are in Portsmouth museum) about 1st Special Service Brigade, the
experiences of naval personnel in his flotilla on D-Day, and the characteristics
of his landing craft (the LCI, or “Landing Craft, Infantry”).
Managing Director.
* indexed, but not listed as such